Interpretations of History

<p>In this volume originally published in 1961 the author presents an exposition of the meanings given to history. Part 1 describes the conceptions of history impied in wide-spread religions and cultures Confucian and Taoist Hindu and Buddhist Zoroastrian and Muslim Greek and Roman Jewish and Christian. Part 2 surveys the theories of independent thinkers and schools in the Occident from the Middle Ages to the mid-twentieth century. </p> <p> </p>